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Living the non-ovine life
Monday, March 07, 2005 at 4:25 am
I just looked up stuff online to see if I could find a "fishy" word to describe the person who keeps wanting me to post about my life. All I found out was that as bovine is to cows, caprine is to goats, and ovine is to sheep. Can you believe that? I found that using Google Sets ;-). Anyway - my day is pretty cool having finally had people in this apartment that neither wanted my rent money nor shared such a large percentage of my DNA.
All I'm about today is that it's HOT in my apartment. My computer is keeping cool - I have a portable fan next to it right now (it's poor little graphics card has been overheating ALL WEEKEND). I'm still hot. If I shell out $30 for a fan that fits inside my computer, I might remember to stick that little fan at the top of my desk - as my apartment is being blasted with heat from the floors below. My windows don't open and have furthermore been painted shut.
More on being a nerd - I want to turn my spare computer into a TiVo. Ok, nothing as stupid as a TiVo, and nothing as expensive as a Media Center PC. I want to be able to watch all my movies from my computer without any discs anymore (hey, it worked with MP3's) and check the weather, record tv shows, and all that. I already see some software to help me along. There are some pretty pictures HERE so not being a nerd doesn't have to leave you out from taking a look.
Umm...life is good here. However, I hate not being smart enough to budget my time so I can get things done around here. I want to redo my web site - sorry, Blogdor, but I've just outgrown you. I want something better and since I can - why not? Yes, to any of you who know me well, I have rewritten my web site no less than every year and a half. So what, every major commercial web site changes about that often. True, I'm not a team of developers and I rarely update my web site when I'm not rewriting it.
Time management = bad.
I spent the last 4 hrs. troubleshooting 2 computer problems in my house. I was going to work on my new web site from about 5p.m. till at least 9p.m. Then, I was going to have a macaroni and cheese break. It's 10:24 now and I'm about to have my mac and cheese break.
Thought of the day:
"When I'm at work, I seem to have no trouble staying on a task. Why can't someone pay me for my hobbies?"
-- I'm looking to solve that one way or another.
Alien Sex
Wednesday, February 23, 2005 at 4:35 am
There, that got your attention. I saw probably the funniest movie I've seen in weeks just tonight. It is a relatively unheard movie called The Mating Habits of the Earthbound Human (1999). It takes the point of view of Discovery Channel style documentary produced by aliens on another planet. This weird premise is what gives it such great wit and charm. Some things are funnier seen from the outside, but it's very hard for a human to be on the outside of humanity. This movie does a remarkable, hilarious job with all the dry humor it could come up with.
A couple of memorable moments from the movie:
The couple is watching a beautiful sunset together as the narrator says:
"They watch their sun disappear over the horizon, hopeful that it will return and not go supernova, causing an instant suffocation and death."
Throughout the movie, a well-trained group of athletes represent sperm and face many hurdles and walls in their path and even the Sperminator. I'll keep this brief so as not to ruin some of the best parts of this movie. Trust me, this is funnier than it seems.
This movie was funny, but almost impossible to find. I rented it on MovieLink.com because I saw it there and because it was only $2.99 to rent. That's not bad, considering I still can't rent at the local move rental place.
Movie Magic
Friday, February 18, 2005 at 4:52 am
Went to a movie. Bought some popcorn. Asked for a cup that I could put water in from the water fountain. They asked for $3. I laughed.
Hung in Cheek
Tuesday, February 15, 2005 at 6:02 am
The best thing for advertising must be a lack of talent. On a completely different subject, William Hung was advertising on TV for Ask Jeeves as an expert on music. Ask Jeeves had the nerve to claim they were more of an expert on music than he was. It is hard for them not to get a big head. They've changed their web site around and now they have mimicked almost all of the features found on Google and MSN. As David Spade would say in the Capital One Lingo, "That's InNOvation."
Today I've been into TV. I wanted something to do while I washed my dishes. It's the boring, lonely part of my days. So I set up a streaming server to broadcast cable TV wirelessly over my home network. I watched "Everybody Loves Raymond" on my 12" Laptop screen in the kitchen tonight. I did this without all of the hassle of carrying in a bulky 13" TV. In defense of what sounds like another cheap shot at sarcasm, a TV is quite a bit heavier than a laptop and I'd also need a longer wire for the cable. Anyway, I hadn't been a nerd for almost 36 hours so I had to do it. I did it with all free software, too!
So life is funny. TBS is funny. I watched TBS. I'm watching TBS. It's midnight. I need sleep so badly. I was going to go to bed 2 hrs. ago but there was a movie on that I had the slightest of interest in. Sleep Beckons. Mind reckons. I'll be out in two seconds.
Tuesdays & Imaginary Cheeses
Wednesday, February 09, 2005 at 1:30 am
I went to the grocery store today for an ice cream sale – 2/$6 on some really good Prairie Farms ice cream. I ended up browsing the entire store. Here's what I saw near the deli: prepackaged blocks of Kojak cheese. Now, if memory serves me correctly, the cheese pronounced by that name would be a combination of colby cheese and monterrey jack cheese. This was marbled white and yellow cheeses as well. There is either one of two conclusions I can make. One is that the people working there are not altogether very bright (and I'm fine with that guess). The second - and I wonder if this isn't it - is that Kolby cheese is some kind of generic/fake cheese kind of like krab meat isn't really crab meat. I wouldn't be surprised by either, but this is a store that closed at 9 every night when I moved to town and now closes at SEVEN-THIRTY!!! You may have thought all-caps were enough, but this is pathetic enough that I actually typed out the whole words! I can't believe a grocery store can close this early. I didn't even get there until 7:05.
And so goes my rant for today.
